Too often, the debate around Islamic violence centers around doctrine -- around what the Koran and other scriptures (such as the Hadith -- the words and deeds of Muhammad) really say and mean. Forgotten in this debate is that Islamic scriptures are unnecessary in determining whether Islam teaches violence and war against non-Muslims.
History suffices. Consider the facts, which have been attested to by both Muslim and non-Muslim primary historic sources.
A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the 7th century, the jihad burst out of Arabia. In just a few decades, Muslims had permanently conquered what was then two-thirds of the Christian world. The heart of the Muslim world today -- nations like Egypt, Syria, all of North Africa, Turkey and more later -- had been, in the 7th century, the heart of Christendom.
Thereafter, it was a continuous war on Christian Europe.
That “Religion of Peace”? Ask Obama: If Islam is peaceful, shouldn’t Islam have been peaceful during and immediately following its founding?
Less than three decades after the traditional date of Islam’s founding (622), three of the five original Christian centers (“sees”) founded by the apostles -- Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem -- were forever swallowed up by Islam. The fourth, Constantinople, valiantly resisted the Islamic onslaught for centuries, but was finally conquered in the name of Islam in 1453.
Though sacked and burned by Muslims as early as 846, only distant Rome -- the Vatican, fifth of the ancient Christian sees -- remained unconquered.
Among other nations and territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim domination throughout the centuries are (to give them their modern names, and in no particular order):
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